Jim Sterling changes his Rating on Hellblade

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Darashiva said:

Cerebralbore101 said:
Destructoid is a much better site without Jim doing the reviews. Jim is one of those reviewers that will review a game solely on his own opinion of it without considering what others might think. Yes, Jim we know you don't like turn based combat. No, Jim that doesn't make this game a 6/10. It's only a 6/10 for you. There's a whole group of gamers that love turn based combat, and would find this to be an 8/10.

But that's what a review is, a single person's subjective view of a specific game, or at least should be. A review that does not reflect the opinion of its writer seems like a complete waste of time to me.

You are not wrong, but there needs to be an overpowering element of objectivity to a review: otherwise, give a person that only plays FPS a turn-based JRPG, and it might get an unfairly low score, and vice versa... one needs to evaluate objectively, noting their own experiences. While that is not the way JS does it, that IMO is the only fair way.